Support for curtain and drape rods.



E. LEWERENZ.

SUPPORT FOR CURTAIN AND DRAPE RODS.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT.16, 1913.

Patented Feb. 24;, 1914.

ERNST LEWERENZ,

0F UTICA, MICHIGAN.

SUPPORT FOR CURTAIN AND DRAPE RODS.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 2%, 1914.

Application filed September 16, 1913. Serial No. 789,966.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ERNST Lnwnnnnz, a citizenof the United States, residing at Utica, in the county of Macomb andState of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inSupports for Curtain and Drape Rods, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to improvements in supports for curtain and draperods and its object is to produce such a support formed of a singlepiece of metal stamped in blank and then adapted to be folded or bentinto shape and attached to the molding by screws or other suitablesupports when it will readily receive and retain both acurtain and adrape rod.

With the foregoing and other objects in view the invention consists inthe combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter fullydescribed in the following specification, pointed out in the claims andillustrated in the accompanying drawing which forms a part of saidspecification and in which Figure l is a plan of the strip of metal fromwhich my improved device is made. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the samein use. Fig. 3 is a front view of Fig. 2. Fig. t is a view of Fig. 5, inuse. Fig. 5 is a plan of Fig. 3.

Like reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout theseveral views.

I form my improved curtain and drape rod holder of a single piece ofmetal 1 which approaches the rectangular in shape but one end of whichis somewhat wider than the other. In the relatively wide end I make twoincisions 2, 9. between the inner ends of which a neck 3 is formed whichthen connects the head portion 4 with the body portion 5. In the head l-I cut a U- shaped slot 6 thus forming a tongue 7 in said head and in theadjacent end of the body portion I provide the screw holes 8 toaccommodate the screws by which the device is to be secured to themolding.

At or about the transverse center of the blank strip of" metal upon animaginary line 6, 6 the blank is to be bent so that the portions of thebody above and below said line shall be disposed at right angles to eachother as shown in Fig. 2. In the body portion below the line 6, 6 whichis the narrow portion of the strip a small U-shaped slot 9 and arelatively large U-shapecl slot 10 are formed, the ends of the two slotsbelng disposed adjacent each other and between the slots 9 and 10 thetongues 11 and 12, respectively, are formed in the metal.

After the metal has been bent upon the line 6-6 as above described thehead i is bent at right angles to the body portion 5 upon the neck 3 andsaid head is then rounded into approximately semi-circular form and thetongue 7 is bent toward the free ends of the head from which ends it isequidistant. The free end of the lower or narrow portion of the strip ofmetal is now rounded as shown at 13 and the tongue 12 bent up toward theportion 13 forming a semi-circle and the tongue 11 bent up between thelast two named members. The curtain rod A is adapted to be inserted inthe curved head 4 of the strip and said rod is slotted to permitinsertion therein of the tongue 7 of said head by which said rod isretained in position and the drape rod B is adapted for insertionbetween the members 12, 13 of the strip and is slotted to permitengagement with the tongue 11 of said strip, the rod A resting upon thedrape rod B.

What is claimed is 1. A curtain and drape rod support comprising asingle strip of metal somewhat rectangular in shape and formed with anarrow extremity and a relatively wide eX- tremity, a head formed in thewide end of said strip, a neck connecting said head and strip, a tongueformed in said head and adjacent tongues formed in the narrow end ofsaid strip, said tongues having their free ends remote from each other.

2. A curtain and drape rod support comprising a single strip of metalbent at right angles to itself and having one curved ter mination, ahead formed at the opposite termination of said strip rounded to form asemi-circle disposed in a plane at right angles to the plane of thattermination, a tongue formed in said head bent at right angles to thesame, tongues formed in the curved termination of said strip, one ofsaid tongues being curved to form a semi-circle ture in the presence oftwo subscribing witwith said termination and the other tongue nesses.belng bent up at rlght angles to said strip and disposed equidistantfrom the ends of ERNST LEWERENA' 5 the said semi-circle. Witnesses:

In testimony that I claim the foregoing PHILIP A. ZIEMENDORF, as my ownI have hereto affixed my signa- ANNA LEWERENZ.

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